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• War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it. -- Desiderius Erasmus (1465-1536)
• War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it. ERASMUS
• Dulce bellum inexpertis. (War is sweet to those who do not fight.
  ) -- Gerard Didier Erasmus (c. 1465-1536)...
• Dulce bellum inexpertis. (War is lovely for those who know nothing about it.
  ) -- Erasmus Rotterdamus, Adagia...
• A good prince will tax as lightly as possible those commodities which are used by the poorest members of society
  e.g., grain, bread, beer, wine, clothing, and all other staples without which human life could not exist....
• Macet: "There are those who...crave war, who need it.
  I am not one of them, Captain. And I am beginning to see....
• Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
  -- Bertolt Brecht, "The Caucasian Chalk Circle...
• I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine.
  It is only those who have neither fired a shot, nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation....
• The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more so to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy.
  -- Celine...